Resolution/fiction

Famous quotes containing the words resolution and/or fiction:

“The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man’s resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.”
—Coleman Dowell (1925–1985)